Tag: Texas A&M Aggies

Four college basketball matchups on Saturday pit two Top 25 teams head-to-head. Of those four, three feature teams ranked No. 19 or better. Oh yeah, the road to March is intensifying. For several of the squads featured in this week's edition of the Saturday Six-Pack, the weekend presents an opportunity for redemption. TCU and Texas…

Apologies shouldn’t be required for an 11-1 start traversing a salty schedule, for equaling the highest ranking in school history and for analysts and observers touting a team that could win its conference and become a dark horse Final Four candidate. Nevertheless, Texas A&M coach Billy Kennedy felt the need to make amends for his…

The 2017 college football season last weekend reached its midway point for many of the 130 teams in FBS. The remainder will be halfway through their slates by day's end Saturday. In college parlance, this time of year marks midterms. We have a sense now as to which programs are on course for an A-grade…

Let's make this perfectly clear up front: Alabama is obviously one of the two best teams in college football. The state of the Southeastern Conference as a whole in 2017 does not reflect negatively on the Crimson Tide, which is outscoring SEC opponents 125-3. In contrast, Alabama's two games against Mountain West Conference opponents Colorado…

Star players delivering in the most crucial moments: That's when college football is at its best, and that best describes Saquon Barkley's Week 4 performance against Iowa. The Penn State running back stepping up when the Nittany Lions needed him most headlined yet another Saturday that showcased the spirit of this game we love. But,…

Welcome to The Third Phase, a new weekly column that dedicated to punting in college football. This column is specifically about punting, not special teams in general, although that still is significant in certain instances. We feel that punters aren't getting respect. It's time to show love to the punter! We did it! We finally made…

Congratulations! It's been a long, arduous offseason -- rougher than most, for a variety of reasons -- but you have made it to the first FULL Saturday of college football. To paraphrase "Stone Cold" Steve Austin: Swig of beer for the college football fan! The Open Man Saturday Six-Pack is on tap for Week 1,…

Fewer than two months remain until the 2017 college football season kicks off. The Open Man's Preview Listapalooza transitions into a Rankapalooza! Fans and pundits alike often lament the imbalance and other imperfections of nonconference play. Why do some Power Five teams go without scheduling a single Power Five opponent? Why don't the leagues have…

Three times in the past decade, the previous season's Heisman Trophy winner returned with the possibility of making history. All three -- Tim Tebow, Johnny Manziel and Jameis Winston -- embarked on their encore seasons in a flurry of hype. 2016 Heisman winner Lamar Jackson need not worry about the madness that follows an underclass…

Week 11 provided yet another eventful weekend in college football -- including several big upsets that are sure to cause a major shakeup in the College Football Playoff rankings. Three top-4 teams -- No. 2 Clemson, No. 3 Michigan and No. 4 Washington -- were all defeated for the first time all season. That will make…

ESPN airs the first College Football Playoff rankings tonight at 7 p.m. ET, and the affair is sure to be controversy-free, right? I mean, the Associated Press Top 25 and Coaches Poll both have the same unbeaten teams ranked in the Top 4, so there's no way the Playoff committee could possibly deviate, right? Well...…

A rule of thumb in professional wrestling: If a match involves a trophy, chances are it's getting smashed. UCF didn't take a play out of Bad News Brown's playbook from WrestleMania IV, but the Knights leaving the Civil ConFLiCT Trophy at Rentschler Field after beating UConn Saturday sent a similar message. It also marks a…

Were you to remake a 1980s underdog movie, Trevor Knight sure seems more like a Billy Zabka or Ted McGinley than Ralph Macchio or Robert Carradine. Classic good looks. A celebrity ex-girlfriend and a pop-singer admirer. Star quarterback of the best football team in Texas. None of those credentials scream underdog. And yet, Trevor Knight…

Already declared the greatest opening Saturday in college football history, Week 1 deserves a picks column befitting the occasion. In this case, however, a singular column simply isn't befitting the occasion. Standard fare here at CFB Huddle is to examine the weekend's six best games in a six-pack format. Last year's Week 1 also featured…